2 Kings 18:26 · JPS 1917

Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh: 'Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Aramean language; for we understand it; and speak not with us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.'

Who acts: Eliakim, I, we, people · What happens: say, speak, pray, understand, not speak, be · To what, where: thee, language, wall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is 2 Kings 18:26 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eliakim, I, we, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Eliakim	Eliakim	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 son	det
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Eliakim	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Hilkiah	case
7	Hilkiah	Hilkiah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Shebnah	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Shebnah	cc
10	Shebnah	Shebnah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Eliakim	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Joah	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Joah	cc
13	Joah	Joah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Eliakim	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shakeh	punct
15	unto	unto	ADP	_	18 shakeh	case
16	Rab	Rab	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 shakeh	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Rab	punct
18	shakeh	shakeh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Speak	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 Speak	punct
21	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Speak	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 pray	nsubj
24	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Speak	parataxis
25	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 pray	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 servants	punct
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 servants	case
28	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 servants	nmod:poss
29	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 Speak	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 language	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 language	det
32	Aramean	Aramean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 language	amod
33	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 servants	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 understand	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 understand	mark
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 understand	nsubj
37	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Speak	advcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 understand	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 speak	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 speak	cc
41	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 Speak	conj
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 speak	advmod
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 us	case
44	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 speak	obl
45	in	in	ADP	_	49 language	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Jews	det
47	Jews	Jew	PROPN	Number=Plur	49 language	nmod:poss
48	'	's	PART	_	47 Jews	case
49	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 speak	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 ears	punct
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 ears	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 ears	det
53	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 speak	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 people	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 people	det
56	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 ears	nmod
57	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 wall	nsubj
58	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 wall	cop
59	on	on	ADP	_	61 wall	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 wall	det
61	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 people	acl:relcl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
63	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Eliakim and Shebnah and Joah			then	unto Rab shakeh	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other	infinitive					to thy servants in the Aramean language	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to servant=Co-Agent
3	pray	present	I	thee				tree rules
4	understand	present	we	language				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	not speak speech: other	infinitive			the Jews's language		with us; in the ears of the people	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with we=Co-Agent
6	is	present	the people		the wall			tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The Hebrew of this verse

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֶלְיָקִ֣ים בֶּן־חִ֠לְקִיָּהוּ וְשֶׁבְנָ֨ה וְיוֹאָ֜ח אֶל־רַב־שָׁקֵ֗ה דַּבֶּר־נָ֤א אֶל־עֲבָדֶ֙יךָ֙ אֲרָמִ֔ית כִּ֥י שֹׁמְעִ֖ים אֲנָ֑חְנוּ וְאַל־תְּדַבֵּ֤ר עִמָּ֙נוּ֙ יְהוּדִ֔ית בְּאָזְנֵ֣י הָעָ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־הַחֹמָֽה׃

2 Kings 18:26: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and Targum Jonathan →

Source. The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence jps:2KI:579 of Mova's parse database.

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